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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By : Dmitri Khanine
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The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook

By: Dmitri Khanine

Overview of this book

Oracle UCM is a world-leading Enterprise Content Management platform. From Document Management, Web, Records, and more—Oracle has got all your business needs covered. Oracle UCM enables your organization to efficiently manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents. Written by Oracle ACE Dmitri Khanine, this book is a complete practical guide to building an ECM system and successfully configuring, administering, and operating it. It also shows you how to efficiently manage your organization's content and customize the UCM to fit your needs. This book wastes no time in getting you up and running and dives straight into the installation of the content server in Chapter 1. In the second chapter, you will master all the major controls and the admin interface. Metadata—a very important ingredient of any ECM—is thoroughly covered in Chapter 3. The book then moves on to the important tasks of securing your ECM system, configuring and managing workflows, and understanding and implementing virtual folders. The book also gives you an under-the-hood view of Stellent in Chapter 7. In the later chapters, you will learn how to migrate content like a pro and easily customize Oracle ECM. A bonus addition to the book is the final chapter, which is an easy-to-follow primer on web content management.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
The Oracle Universal Content Management Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgement
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Up and Running
Exploring Oracle UCM Product Offering
Index

How to migrate content—faster than anyone else thought possible


Hold on to your hat! Not only I'll tell you how to bring existing content in, I'll tell you how to do it fast.

A shortcut to a successful migration

Before we take a plunge into Content Server tools, here's a really important topic to consider: Are you talking about just bringing existing content in or do you need a content migration? What's the difference? There's plenty. First, check out Content migrations.

Content migrations

A content migration is when you have one or more existing Content Management systems to consider. On the day of the migration, the old systems become obsolete and all of the content "magically" appears in the new system.

There may be some down time in between. There may also be a content freeze in the middle, when your old systems become read-only and you have the time to bring content over.

More often than not, content migrations need to be repeatable. This means that you write down your migration process....